Advice Needed! – Sound Dropping Out on Old AND New System

[Montetré Xxx]

Dear Filmmakers,

I’ve solved it folks. And this is the only way to do it. This is treating your computer like an assembly line. You are letting it catch up with itself by doing it this way.

If you are using Adobe Premiere CS6, export your waveforms to the same settings of your project in 5 minute intervals at the most. The audio will not drop out whatsoever.

If you are using Adobe Premiere CS5, do the same thing, but I believe that it doesn’t export waveforms, so just do the audio that the program allows you to do with the project’s settings.

Stay away from .mp3s .

There is no solution for a messed up playback in the editor (dropped audio, oh man that killed me), although, like previously posted, you just press pause and go back and it will play how it should (at least for a little while). Really, it makes total sense. We’re asking for too much. That’s the solution, please read below for more information regarding how to survive with this happily.

I know that this is arduous, but by doing it this way, if you have a 75 minute movie and end up with 15 .wav files, at the very least if you need to change something in the original file, you can simply go back and work on it, before re-exporting the audio within that specific five minutes.

Inevitably, you will need to save a new project so as not to rewrite over the original, and use the newer, saved version to both delete the massive amount of audio editing you have done and to have implemented the .wavs .

I don’t recommend doing the same thing to the video (that is, to also export it in five minute intervals), as video becomes more and more degraded throughout multiple exports. I do recommend doing this if you just need to export it to see a test.

Simply do the-five-minute-at-a-time-thing, put them all together under a new project with the old audio deleted and the original video remaining, and click export.

There you have it. Give it a try. Perhaps you have more audio tracks than even I, in which case a 5 minute interval may not work (it would need to be about three minutes). I myself have over fifteen audio tracks for my feature film, “MoonPi.”

The beauty of this is that you can listen to your current audio edit with no breakage and mark down all of the moments to fix. You can then go back and fix them in the original mix, which may be necessary (as opposed to doing this in the .wavs own export, say bring the levels up or down in its own key frames).

I think that I lost a year off of my life because of this, but at least none of you will kill yourselves over it, anymore. Thank you for your help on these forums, which through a process of elimination, led me to my answer. This takes longer, but technology will get better one day.

Sincerely,
*Montetré
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3761418/

[Stephen Hill]

Well my 16GB RAM has been replaced and the system has since run flawlessly exactly as it did before it was running on 4GB.

[Matt Ellsworth]

Ryan,

Did you ever find this “mute clipped audio” setting? This problem is driving me nuts, and I think this may be the solution as my current project does have its fair share of over-modulated audio.

I have searched for this “mute clipped audio” to no end…

Matt